I think this is an underdiscussed aspect of the film:

It kind of jumped out at me. I'm also not sure how I feel about nearly an entire species becoming the woman in the refrigerator. (Or if that has to happen, why are both of Spock's parents not allowed to live? What if we had lost Sarek and Amanda was the parent left alive, Vulcan-assimilated human in a refugee society that barely seems to have tolerated an interspecies marriage in the first place? Where would she have fit? Spock refers to himself as "a member of an endangered species" and yet calls Earth the only home he has left. I think I am not the right audience for this movie; I want to talk about cultural identities, not stuff blowing up.)

it's very much the case that Jews have tended to portray Vulcans across several decades.

. . . and while I cannot speak to Ben Cross' genes or religion, my first reaction to his appearance as Sarek was, "Wait, Spock's father is Harry Abrahams?"

which is weird in light of historical resonances--I mean the cultural importance of maintaining one's own history, perhaps more than from-desert-to-diaspora, since diaspora has been/become one defining aspect of other culture-clusters as well.

I think I need an explication of this sentence, if you're awake. I'm sorry; I am probably the brain-dead one here. I can't tell if you mean Jewish history, Vulcan, the show's own historical allusions as they evolved . . . ?

I hope your headache has subsided!

Thank you! It's better. I hope the farmer's market was good.